Kenwood radios Both VHF and UHF??

[kenwoodman]

I know someone that has a radio and its the TK 272g. I was looking at the channels and they had UHF freqs in it. I know that the tk 272g is a vhf radio. Is it really possible to have UHF freqs in a VHF radio? If so how? A fire dept that i know also uses only vhf radios. They told me that they have a speical channel in there radios. I looked up the lisences on FCC and it came back as UHF freqs?

 

[Thayne]

The TK-272G is only VHF. The TK-372G is only UHF. They look the same so maybe that confused you.

 

[kenwoodman]

On the radio it said TK- 272g. When I keyed the mic up, on my BCD 369T scanner on close call it showed up as a UHF. 452.650 I think.

 

[SCPD]

Sometimes the same thing will happen to me when im in my truck. talking on the VHF and by bct15 with close call on, due to the harmonics of the VHF frequency it will pick it up as a UHF frequency (or something like that). it will even sound about the same, so it sounds like im transmitting on the UHF as well.
Try increasing the distance between the scanner and the transmitter. like, for example, the scanner inside and the transmitter outside, or vise versa.

 

[kenwoodman]

Ok I will thanks.

 

[BigEd1314]

If it was a repeated channel, there may be a link to a UHF channel/repeater.

 

[kenwoodman]

So you mean like TOWER TO TOWER? Like say there are sub repeaters?

 

[BigEd1314]

You would have a repeater (on VHF in this case) that when traffic is passed through it, it is repeated on both VHF and UHF, and what every comes through on the UHF side is repeated on both UHF and VHF. Like a cross band repeater. This way if you have a mutual aid department from, say the next county over, that is UHF, when responding to one of your calls for mutual aid, they don't have to have a VHF in the truck ,they could just use this UHF "link" channel.

 

[kenwoodman]

Ok I understand now.